ror4r.RmdIt helps to understand what you are trying to achieve before interacting with the API.
You want to use the get_single_org() function. If you
provide a ROR ID, this will return a list of all the data provided via
the API for the organisation holding said ID.
There are two approaches here.
If you have an identifier from another system, you might want to use
get_id_map(). This will accept other types of ID (eg, GRID,
UKPRN) and return a list of all identifier ROR holds for the same
organisation. Note not EVERY type of ID is held so not every ID you try
will return results.
Alternatively, if you don’t have an alternative ID held by ROR, you
can try get_org_list(). This returns a list of
organisations from the API, meeting parameters you set as part of the
function call. It is highly recommended you set these parameters when
making the call, as trying to return to much data will take a very long
time.
If you do have a lot of IDs you want to look up, or want to scan
through lots of information, maybe read_data_dump() is the
best bet. Approximately every quarter, the ROR team drop an extract of
data on Zenodo. This function reads in the data and returns it as a
dataframe.
This depends on exactly what you want to do. It might be using
get_single_org() in conjunction with lapply()
or purrr::map() will get you the data in a usable format.
It may be you want to download the whole data dump
(read_data_dump()) to try and find the info you’re after.
Or if you have enough information to narrow down the search space,
get_org_list() is your best bet.